"We will never be the first to shoot nor the first to blink," Getachew Reda, a senior member of the TPLF, told AFP last week. On Tuesday night, hours before Mr Abiy's announcement, Wondimu Asamnew ...

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The TPLF has dismissed Mr Abiy's statement with its spokesperson, Getachew Reda, saying that "our forces won't relent on their inexorable advance towards bringing [Abiy's] chokehold on our people ...